Poetic. Visual. Performance.

the company

Live Action Set is committed to creating original, ensemble-driven performances that dissolve boundaries between artistic disciplines the company's productions have been widely hailed as "courageous", "beautiful" and "daring."

Live Action Set's ensemble is diverse and multitudinous. We continually work with both established and new talented artists. To learn more about the artists we work with, click HERE.

The company was founded in 2003 by three dancers and a clown: Noah Bremer, Galen Treuer, Megan Odell, and Vanessa Voskuil.

CURRENT STAFF

Noah Bremer - Co-Producing Artistic DirectorNoah arrived in MN as a west coast middle-school transplant growing up to be a Minneapolis based actor and director. As a theater-maker, he has collaboratively created numerous original theatrical works. He enjoys the challenges of directing large-scale productions such as the Haunted Basement, an immersive terror adventure in which the audience navigates a path through the basement of The Soap Factory art gallery; The Big Lowdown, the Bedlam Theatre/Live Action Set collaboration set creating a neighborhood-wide piece set in Lowertown, St. Paul; and Crime and Punishment, a unique experience where the each member of the audience assumes the role of main character. Other directing credits include Clown in Exile featured in the Algerian Theatre Festival in Algiers, Capital Crimes: St.Paul's Gangster Musical at the History Theatre and Treasure Island at Theatre in the Round. He received an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2005. Also that year, the Star Tribune and City Pages recognized his co-creation of Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban, with the latter naming him Artist of the Year. He has performed locally on such stages as the Guthrie Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Illusion Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre with Jon Ferguson and also performed internationally as the lead character role in Cirque du Soleil's touring production of Varekai. Noah studied theater at the University of Minnesota and The Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater in California.

Joanna Harmon - Co-Producing Artistic DirectorJoanna grew up on Sanibel Island, Florida where from an early age she was permitted to explore without her hand being held, and which she did mostly on bicycle. It was there at 10-years old that she saw her first professional production: Twelfth Night in the round, with one set piece, and in modern dress. From that, she was hooked on theater, and the seed was planted to imagine the non-traditional. She has served Live Action Set since 2009, when she graduated from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program. There, her studies emphasized plays from the classical canon. Divergently, since graduating, she has been a part of primarily new and devised productions. Her alma mater's moto "words aren't in the way, they are the way," brings to Live Action Set an acute awareness of embodied text. She has performed with a multitude of theater companies in the Twin Cities, Florida, and Montana, including The Guthrie Theater, The Children's Theater Co., Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, The Florida Repertory Theater, JonFerguson Theater, Walking Shadow, Red Eye, The Minnesota Jewish Theater, and the Workhouse Collective. She simultaneously commits herself wholeheartedly to theater administration and everything else “behind the scenes.” She still rides a bicycle, even in winter.

OUR MISSION

Live Action Set creates visually poetic, wildly imaginative, and accessible performance experiences that harness the indefinable power of the human spirit.

OUR VISION

Live Action Set's ensemble-driven work dissolves artistic boundaries, pursues issues of essential value to its audiences, and engages people and communities in profound relationships. Artists, audiences, and venues in Minnesota and throughout the world invite Live Action Set to create experiences that inspire.

OUR VALUES

Artistic Excellence & Innovation

Curiosity & Collaboration

Honesty, Respect & Felicity

OUR BELIEFS

Art transforms artists and audiences

Play is essential and humor provokes insight

Cross disciplinary collaboration builds community and provides opportunities for innovation

our process

Artistic curiosity and collaboration is our guide. This way of working has led to diverse projects with amazing collaborators ranging from site-specific productions with elaborate sets to touring the country out of suitcases.

WORK WITH US!

We love to work with new collaborators who are as passionate as we are! Please contact us if you are interested in working with us in any capacity.